Traveling bag



July 26,1938. LEVlNE 2,125,051

TRAVELING ,BAG

Filed Dec. 17, 1954 2 Sheets-Sheet l INVENTOR flrafiqm Lev/I76 BY 0., a

ATTORNEY July 26, 1938.

' A. LEVIN TRAVELING, BAG I Filed Dec. .17, 1954 2 Sheets-Sheet INVENTORfi a/mm Lev/Ive BY ATTORNEY Patented July 26, 1938 PATENT OFFlCE 72,125,051 TRAVELING BAG Abraham Levine, Elizabeth, N. J., assignor toPresto Lock Corporation, a corporation of New York Application'December17, 1934, Serial No. 757,743

3 Claims.

This invention relates to traveling bags of the wardrobe type; and moreparticularly to the provision of means in such bags to enable thetransportation of clothing without rumpling or disarrangement.

It is desirable that luggage be as light in weight as practicable, andfor this reason there have been produced various types of hand luggageand over night bags. However, due to the restricted size of suchluggage, dresses and suits of mens clothing can not'be transportedwithout being disarranged and wrinkled. Heretofore, there have beenprovided in such bags, garment supporting frames adapted to maintaingarments in an orderly condition during transportation. But such frameshave been objectionable in that they are inconvenient to manipulate; andin many instances, appreciably increase the weight of the bag.

It is, therefore, an object of this invention to provide in a travelingbag a garment supporting device which can be conveniently and readilypositioned to properly receive clothing.

A further object is the provision of a garment supporting device adaptedto accommodate a plurality of garment hangers, and having means toprevent such hangers from being removed or falling from said device whenthe latter is in a folded condition.

A further object is the provision in a traveling bag of a garmentsupporting frame pivotally mounted in the cover of the bag and havingextensions adapted to be supported by the main body of the bag toprovide a stable structure when it is desired to place garments thereon.

These and other objects are attained by the novel construction,combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter described and shown inthe accompanying drawings, constituting a material part of thisdisclosure, and in which:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a traveling bag in an open conditionwith the garment supporting device in an extended position.

Fig, 2 is a perspective view showing the garment supporting device in afolded condition in the cover of the traveling bag.

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of an element of device in an extendedcondition.

Fig. 4 is a perspective View of the element shown in Fig. 3 is a foldedcondition.

Fig. 5 is a perspective view of elements for supporting the garmentsupporting device when in an extended position as shown in Fig. 1,

Referring to the drawings, in Fig. 1 is shown a traveling bag of thewardrobe type having a metal U-shaped members 9 attached to the innerside walls of the main body 2 of the traveling bag. As will be seen inFig. 1, the structure above described provides a frame which issupported by the members 9 on the main body 2 z and by the brackets 4 onthe side walls of the cover I.

Adjacent the pivotal connection of bars 5 and 6 and extending betweenthe two bars 6 is a rod I having right-angularly directed portions H,which are rigidly secured to the bars 6 by members l2 which arepreferably riveted to the bars 6. Positioned below the rod l0, andmounted on the bars 6 are U-shaped rods l3, each having a leg I4 securedto a bar 6, and a leg l5, supported by a brace 28 secured to a bar 6.See Fig. 3. Pivotally connected to each of the legs are rods I! havingupturned portions provided with heads [8 which in turn are provided withrecesses I9 adapted to receive the rod Ill frictionally when the rods I!are folded to a position parallel with the rod H) as shown in Fig. 4.

As shown in Figs. 3 and 4, the legs l5 of the U-shaped member l3, areadapted to support one or more garment hangers 2|], which have enlargedportions 2| at their ends, and slots to receive the legs [5. When it isdesired to mount one or more hangers 20 on the legs I5, the rods I! aremoved to an extended position as shown in Fig. 3. The hangers 20 arethen placed on the rods I1 and slid back on to the legs 15, after whichthe rods I! are folded to the position shown in Fig. 4. When the hangers20 are on the legs l5, they can not be removed as upward movement of thehangers is prevented by projections 22 at the ends of the hangers, whichprojections engage the legs M to prevent upward movement of the hangers;and forward movement of the hangers is limited by the folded rods l1.

Projecting laterally from the bars 6 and intermediate the length thereofare pins 23, which are adapted to enter openings 24 in latching elements25 mounted on the side walls 3 of the cover I. The latching elements areprovided with buttons 26 for releasing the pins 23 when. desired. The

latching elements 25 are of a well known and old type, and the structurethereof is not herein described in detail.

In operation, when it is desired to fold the gar ment supporting deviceinto the cover as shown in Fig. 2, the bars 6 are raised to disengagethe pins 8 from the notches in the members 9, after which the bars 6 arebrought forward and upwardly so that the pivotal connections betweenbars and 6 will move downwardly. The bars 5 are then moved into thecover i, with the free ends of the bars 6 directed upward; and the pins23 projecting from bars 6 are caused to enter the openings 24 in thelatching elements 25.

The hangers 20 and the garments thereon will then be positioned in thecover l, with portions of the garments folded over the cross-bar I.Obviously, by means of my garment supporting device, garments can betransported without disarrangement or wrinkling; and the supportingdevice can be conveniently and readily manipulated to place it in anextended position as shown in Fig. 1 for the purpose of removinggarments therefrom.

The foregoing disclosure is to be regarded as descriptive andillustrative only, and not as restrictive or limitative of theinvention, of which obviously an embodiment may be constructed includingmodifications without departing from the general scope herein indicatedand denoted in the appended claims.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is:

1. In a garment supporting device a pair of bars, means to support saidbars in an upright position, U-shaped members attached horizontally tosaid bars, the inner legs of said members being adapted to supportgarment hangers, extension rods hingedly connected to the inner legs ofsaid members, a cross-rod connected to said pair of bars, garmenthangers having means to cooperate with the outer legs of the U-shapedmembers to prevent upward removal of the hangers, and means at the freeends'of said extension rods engageable with said cross-rod to preventremoval of garment hangers from said legs.

2. In a garment supporting device, a pair of bars, U-shaped membersattached horizontally to said bars, the inner legs of said members beingadapted to support garment hangers, members hingedly connected to theinner legs of said U- shaped members, a cross-rod connected to said pairof bars, garment hangers having means to cooperate with the outer legsof the U-shaped members to prevent upward removal of the hangers, andlatch means carried by said hingedly connected members, said latch meansbeing engageable with said cross-rod to prevent removal of garmenthangers from said legs.

3. In a garment supporting device, a pair of bars, U-shaped membersattached horizontally to said bars, the inner legs of said members beingadapted to support garment hangers, a cross-rod connected to said pairof bars, garment hangers having means to cooperate with the outer legsof the U-shaped members to prevent upward removal of the hangers, andmeans carried by said inner legs engageable with said cross-rod toprevent removal of garment hangers from said legs.

ABRAHAM LEVINE.

